Through the troubles of our earthly pilgrimage we find God.
SAINT AUGUSTINEGod has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
More Saint Augustine Quotes
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It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
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The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
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He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.
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If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.
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It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.
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Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.
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To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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The purpose of all wars, is peace.
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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you believe.
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.
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Love has reasons that reason knows not.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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